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While protests continue across Iran, the Islamic Republic’s Judiciary says it has indicted over 1,000 people who were arrested during the demonstrations.

The European Union is mulling over further sanctions against the Islamic Republic over its "excessive" crackdown on antigovernment protesters, Germany said Monday.

Rob Malley, the White House special envoy, has said United States Iran policy is based on a ‘global commitment’ to human rights.

Iranian plainclothes forces have abducted Dariush Farhoud, an 85-year-old professor of medical and clinical genetics known as the father of Iran’s genetics.

Iran has called criticism over its handling of popular protests “intervention” in its “internal affairs” and slammed Germany’s plans to list the IRGC as a terrorist entity.

New Zealand has suspended its official bilateral human rights dialogue with the Islamic Republic, saying bilateral approaches were "no longer tenable" given Tehran’s gross violations.

Amid nationwide antigovernment protests, over 36 trillion rials (over $120 million) has been withdrawn from Tehran’s Stock Exchange market only in the past 10 days.

More than 300 Iranian journalists have demanded the release of two colleagues arrested over exposing police brutality that killed Mahsa Amini over ‘bad hijab.’

Iran on Monday called Iran International’s coverage of events “similar to a terrorist media” and vowed to follow up the issue through legal and diplomatic channels.

A well-known whistleblower and investigative journalist in Iran says people in the Islamic Republic political system are not accountable for their performance.

Iran's security forces focusing on student protesters lately are using plainclothes agents to arrest and abduct students in universities across the country.

A group of women leaders in business, politics, and the arts from over 14 countries has called for the immediate expulsion of the Islamic Republic from the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).

Germany and the European Union are examining whether to classify Iran's Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Sunday.

Unconfirmed reports suggest that Iranian officials are sending their family members and assets abroad amid antigovernment protests that show no sign of abating.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard’s intelligence organization has secretly buried the body of an exiled Iranian journalist whose coffin was shipped to Iran for family burial.

Less than a day after the IRGC commander threatened people to end their protests, students turned many universities into scene of antigovernment demonstrations.

Five assailants attacked a sit-in of Iranians outside the Islamic Republic’s embassy in Berlin in the early hours of Sunday, beating and stabbing the protesters.

The Islamic Republic’s organization enforcing dress code regulations has taken new measures to intensify the observance of hijab, which many Iranians are defying.

Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, who was one of the supporters of the current wave of antigovernment protests across Iran, has been arrested by security forces.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has spoken about the likelihood of regime change in Iran, saying that Canada will no longer be a haven for those affiliated with it.

Iran is in the grip of what may be its most serious domestic and foreign crises since the establishment of the Islamic Republic, pundits in Tehran say.